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\"\"<\/a>Tensions Flare as UC Berkeley Students Debate Condemning Anti-Zionist Group for Glorifying Palestinian Terrorists<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiri Moshe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Students waiting to enter a UC Berkeley student senate meeting on Feb. 3, 2020. Photo: Milton Zerman.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A student senate meeting at the University of California, Berkeley was cut short on Monday amid rancor over a bill condemning an anti-Zionist club for displaying images of Palestinians who were involved in hijackings and bombing attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The legislation<\/a>, which was set to be considered by a committee of the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC), was first brought forward in December by senior Milton Zerman, an ASUC senator. It calls out Bears for Palestine for using its dedicated cubicle space to display photos<\/a> of \u201cviolent terrorists\u201d including Rasmea Odeh, Fatima Bernawi and Leila Khaled \u2014 the latter seen wielding an AK-47 assault rifle.<\/span><\/p>\n

A display erected by Bears for Palestine at UC Berkeley, along with protest signs. Photo: Milton Zerman \/ Facebook.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bernawi has been lionized for reportedly being the first Palestinian woman to organize an attack in Israel, placing a bomb in a Jerusalem cinema in 1967 over objections to a film it was screening. Odeh, in turn, was convicted in a trial overseen by an International Red Cross observer of helping murder university students Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe in a 1969 supermarket bombing in Jerusalem. She was deported from the US to Jordan in 2017 after lying on her immigration forms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Khaled gained notoriety after helping hijack two planes in Europe in 1969 and 1970. Both she and Odeh are affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a US-designated terrorist organization that was behind multiple suicide bombings during the Second Intifada, which claimed more than 100 casualties, children among them.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 200 people showed up to Monday\u2019s 8 p.m. meeting on the ASUC resolution, according to various estimates, with many Jewish and Zionist students coming out to back the resolution, while Bears for Palestine members and supporters gathered to oppose it. More than 110 people signed up to speak during a public comment period, the student-run Daily Californian reported.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both sides accused the other of engaging in harassing behavior over the course of the debate, with Tikvah: Students for Israel saying in a Facebook post on Tuesday that \u201cJewish students were repeatedly harassed, heckled, and threatened with physical threats of violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne [Bears for Palestine] member stepped into a student\u2019s face and said \u2018I\u2019m going to kick your ass,\u2019 while another Jewish student was chased out of the room by [Bears for Palestine] members,\u201d the statement alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group also shared a video of resolution opponents chanting as Jewish students collectively left the meeting after deciding, approximately two hours into the public comment period, \u201cthat enough was enough and that we were not going to sit idly by as our members were threatened and harassed,\u201d according to Tikvah.<\/span><\/p>\n

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